Fair enough, but surely these are simply reflecting the attributes of the players and should be included by default. In the England squad, for example, David Beckham is an exceptional passer, whereas Michael Owen has the pace of a whippet. The gameplay has been marginally tweaked, the biggest change being the addition of so-called star players. Not a reflection of the game's quality in any way, simply a vulgar analogy. That's different in the same way that a shit on a string is different from a turd on a rope. Of course 'completely different' from FIFA 2002. Or you could just play as France.Īllegedly in development for more than a year, World Cup is Sven's boys are heading East though, (and I'll be joining them) and this irksomely named official game gives every honest Englishman the chance to attempt the impossible. That said, we wonder how sales in this country would have been affected had Beckham's last gasp free kick against Greece gone the way of his previous eight efforts, and England had then been eliminated in the playoffs. Going on past evidence, it's hard not to think that 2002 FIFA World Cup, will be anything but a nailed-on certainty to be among this summer's biggest sellers. If people want to keep buying the same game, why shouldn't they? So long as they're happy. It would seem that the reason why the FIFA games do so well is the same reason insipid pap tops the music charts and romantic comedies fill the cinemas: many people are happy settling for less. In fact, the work I've garnered from reviewing the FIFA series has paid for most of my furniture. Lets face it, I've had enough pratice with these games in the past, and an almost equal amount of disappointment, so I should know what I'm talking about by now. However, there's work to be done, and as ever I'm ready to give the latest FIFA incarnation a thorough going over, in the hope that it'll throw up enough nuances to make me sit up from my cynical stupor and take note. For all the difference it makes, we might as well get proper jobs. The FIFA series has often made a mockery out of the so-called games industry: embittered journalists rail against it, PR people flap, yet every incarnation continues to outsell the previous one regardless. So This Is where I'm supposed to berate EA for its despicable tactic of releasing essentially the same game every six months.

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